Satchel-handle



I. HEGERHORST.

SATCHEL HANDLE.

APPLICATION man MAR. 12. 191B. RENEWED AUG. 16, 1919.

1,333,61 8. I Patented Mar.16,1920.

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' ,sAroHn -mi vnnn' Application filed Hatch 12, 1918, Serial :No. 221,938. Renewed August'16, 1919. SeriaI No. 318,038.

Jefferson Barracks,"i in the county of St,

Louis and State of Missouri, have invented 'new and useful Improvements in Satchel- Handles, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to handles for valises, suit cases, satchels andthelike, and its object is to provide a handle having a novel and improved detachable connection with the case for the purpose of discouraging theft thereof, the handle being" removed when the owner wishes toleave the case, so

that the latter now cannot be conveniently carried.

, The object stated is attainedby means of.

a combinationand arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing, I I Figure 1 is an elevation of the handle; Fig.2 is a central longitudinal section of the handle fastening means;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

, fastening; Fig.5 is a central longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

' Referring specifically to the drawing 10 denotes a fragmentof a hand grip, satchel or similar article, provided with a handle 11 for conveniently carrying the same. This handle is detachably connected to the'top 12 of the satchel or the like by the following housing having a slot 15 through which the hook is inserted to come behind the wall of the housing in which "the slot is made.

Upon swinging the handle about its hooked end, the. latter may he slipped out of the housing, and thus detached, butbefore this can be done, theother end'of the handle must first be released from the part 12. The last 'mentioned end of the handle is detachably connected to the. part 12 by providing said Fig. 4 is a plan view of amodifie'd handle Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 16, 1920.

end with a downwardly projecting keeper tongue 16 engageable by a latch bolt 17.

On the bottom of thepart 12 is a housing 18 inclosing the bolt 17 and secured to said part 12 by a screw 19 threaded into a hollow post 20 from the bottom of the housing, said post depending from a plate 21 seating on the outside of the part 12, the latter having a slot 22 through which the post passes and extends into the thereof.

7 In the parts 12 and 21 are registering slots housing to the bottom wall 23 through which the tongue 16 is adapted to be passed into the housing 18 for'engage- I ment by the bolt 17 The tongue 16 has one or more apertures 24:, and the forward end ofthe bolt 17 has a corresponding number of projecting studs 25 to enter the same. These apertures and lugs may be arranged in different ways and numbers so .that only a handle to match will fit the locking device.

The bolt 17 is slidable in the direction of its length, and. it is guidedb} the post 20, it being provided with along1tudinal slot 26 through which'the post extends.

I A spring 27 engages the bolt 17 to advance the same to locking position, and it is retracted to release the handle, by a pin 28 connected to its rear end and passing through the slot 22 and a slot 29 in the plate dotted in'Fig. 2, and the-handleis now de-" tached from the satchel or other part. By a '21 registering therewith. On the outside'of I the plate 21, the pinv 28 is provided with a reversal of this operation,'the handle can be readily replaced.

Figsd to 6 show a slightly modified struc-" ture, the invention being here shown applied.

to a valise or grip having a, steel top. The latch casing- 31 is placed on top o'f the upper steel strip 32, the topof the casing having two depending hollow posts 33 into which screws 84 are threaded strip 32. i l

Iclaimz j The combination with a valise or the like; of .a handle thereforhaving a hook at one end, alatch-keeper tongue on the other end from beneath the of the handle, a-keeper on the valise top with Whichthe hook is cletachably engageab1e,the hook being disengageable from the keeper by swinging the second-mentioned end of the handle outward of thevalise top, a housing carried by the valise top on the inside thereof, and a latch-bolt Working in the housing,

' the valise top haying an aperture opening.

into the housing and the ,latoh-vbolt-being insert-ible into the housing for engagement 10 by the latch bolt through Fthe aforesaid aperture in the valisetop, for looking the handle against the aforesaidswinging movement to disengage the hook from its keeper.

I In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 15 7 7 JOHN HEGERHORST. 

